To those who don’t know, Tzfat seems like a quiet little town, but it is really quiet intense. The prayer is intense, most of the people we know are serious about living spiritual life, and G-d’s providence is evident even in a chance encounter. It is also a small town where people know each other and everyone helps everybody else. But after living in Maine, recently I have been feeling a need for a little more privacy,  and as if an answer to my prayer, we were invited to a trip to Ibikur, only 10 minutes ride on a number 3 bus from our house, a name we never heard before. Ibukur is a North-Western suburb of Tzfat, it is located on top of one of the three mountains, that compose our town. It is higher than Central Tzfat where we live, and there is a major military listening station there. The neighborhood is named after the company that developed it, but it has an unintended Hebrew translation: “Don’t come here”, but we came anyway. Most of it is undeveloped, and is a big nature park, with a very long walking trail, which ends at a military listening station, followed by a 1500 foot drop into the Hula Valley. Also at the end of the trail is a cave with the graves of three great Talmudic scholars: Abaya, Rava, and Rav Papa.The views are spectacular: you can see Hula Valley, the Golan Heights, Lebanon, Syria, Kineret, and a lot of cows.It’s good to know that there is such a place close by, where it is easy to come often, to walk, meditate, and literally, see a big picture!Our excellent guide on this trip was Rabbi Yossi Reis, a native Israeli resident of Tzfat,  who speaks perfect English, and available if anybody is interested in a tour in the North of Israel.